make_it_cool: kdelibs/kdemm

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 21 March 2005 09:55, Michael Donaghy wrote:
> So until we get a standardised VFS as you say, I think letting the 
> player handle opening the file is as good as anything.

of course. even after (if) we get a standard VFS, the player should still open 
the file, but via the VFS not via it's own implementations of protocols.

> Forcing the frontend 
> to do all the reading will result in a lot of unnecessary IPC:
> kio->frontend->engine is twice as much as kio->engine.

the reason i put the GUI and the IO layer at opposite sides of the little 
ascii diagram was to help make the point clear that they would be separate 
items. the front end should not need to do the reading, but at the same time 
it's unfortunate that the media players are all doing the reading themselves 
without help from a larger infrastructure. this makes them inconsistent with 
the capabilities of the rest of the desktop. well, the KDE desktop anyways =)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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